1st Edition
Class Struggle and Social Welfare
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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For too long the collective struggles of the oppressed over welfare provision and welfare settlement have been ignored, yet such struggles punctuate recent British history. By presenting a series of case-studies of episodes of collective action from the field of social policy and social welfare, Class Struggle and Welfare aims to rediscover this 'hidden history'. Organised chronologically, the... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Michale Lavalette, Gerry Mooney; Chapter 2 Class Struggle and the English Poor Laws, Mark O’Brien; Chapter 3 Class Struggle, Self-Help and Popular Welfare, Chris Jones, Tony Novak; Chapter 4 Class Struggle and the Origins of State Welfare Reform, John Charlton; Chapter 5 ‘The Clyde Rent War!’, Seán Damer; Chapter 6 The Making of a Poor People’s Movement, Alan Johnson; Chapter 7 The ‘Two Souls of Socialism’, Laura Penketh, Alan Pratt; Chapter 8 Housing and Class Struggles in Post-War Glasgow, Charlie Johnstone; Chapter 9 The Struggle for Abortion Rights, Sue Clegg, Rita Gough; Chapter 10 Riots and Urban Unrest in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s, Rumy Hasan; Chapter 11 ‘No Poll Tax Here!’, Michael Lavalette, Gerry Mooney; Chapter 12 Identity Politics or Class Struggle?, Iain Ferguson;
Biography
Michael Lavalette is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Liverpool and Gerry Mooney is Staff Tutor in the Social Sciences with the Open University in Scotland
